Writer’s Block

I don’t think I get this bug. I do get periods where the story I’m working on is either frustratingly unexciting, or unexcitingly frustrating to me, and I really wanna bag it – so I do.

When a key character doesn’t have enough dimension, it just doesn’t come to life, so the scenes in which the character participates just don’t breathe air. They just don’t hit, and I hit the wall in the race of life. I just don’t care enough to keep writing about any of it.

But then, I can’t ever stop thinking about the mechanics of that particular story, and wondering what’s the problem? With pen and paper, I start talking to myself – in Q & A format. Typically, I find out that I haven’t developed a key character so it really lives – really hits.